For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.